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Series
Comeback kids volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Jake must leave his championship soccer team to play on a team with a losing record when his family moves to a neighboring town.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"All it takes is one email to end her relationship, get her kicked out of her apartment, and just about ruin her life. Essie Phillips never meant for her private rant about her boss to be sent to everyone in her address book, but as soon as it goes viral, her life as she knows it is over. Solution: move to a new town, find a new job, make new friends. If only it were as simple as that"--
4) Chrissa
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
When Chrissa starts fourth grade at a new school, some of the girls in her class play mean tricks on her, but when their teasing of another girl, Gwen, goes too far, Chrissa knows that she has to do something about it.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How do you say good-bye to your very best friend?"--Page 1 of cover.
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While longing to return to life in New York City, thirteen-year-old Penny helps her mother and grandmother run a cupcake bakery in Hog's Hollow, tries to avoid the beastly popular girls, to be a good friend to quirky Tally, and to catch the eye of enigmatic Marcus.
Author
Series
Haven Point volume 9
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dani Capelli has never truly belonged anywhere. And from her earliest days as a foster child in Queens, she would have been lost if it weren't for her love of animals. Until high school, when she fell hard for the wrong boy, and found herself pregnant--and married--by graduation. Two daughters later, Dani realized her mistake and filed for divorce, and with the help of scholarships and loans--and a lot of macaroni and cheese dinners--she enrolled...
10) Lost and found
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
12) If I survive you
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami"--
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living...
13) Time to fly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Just when Zoe is starting to feel at home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, living with her veterinarian grandmother and learning about a flock of wild parrots, her actress mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles.
14) We are moving
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mom and Dad tell Little Critter they have exciting news, he thinks they mean getting a dog--not moving to a new house! Will he be able to bring his sandbox? What if he has to go to a new school full of bullies? What if his new next-door neighbors are monsters? Eventually, Little Critter learns moving is not so bad after all...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2005, 2002.
Language
English
Description
Following her parents separation, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country, where she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Andrea is devastated when her parents announce that the family is moving to Scotland for a year-long teacher exchange program, but as she makes new friends, joins a soccer team, and her stutter improves, life does not seem so bad.
17) The Santa suit
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Language
English
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Description
"From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love-but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much...
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Language
English
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Description
"Sara Keane's husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a "fresh start" in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless, friendless-all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility, Sara begins to understand the house has a terrible...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian whose family just moved to Austin, Texas, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He's amusing...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . . right?) When she's rescued by a charming but eccentric bookseller...
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